Re: binutils in debian unstable is broken.

["Daniel T. Chen" <chenda@cs.unc.edu>]

Filed last night. See
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=122179&repeatmerged=yes

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Dan Chen                 crimsun@email.unc.edu
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On 4 Dec 2001, safemode wrote:

> 
> 
> binutils 2.11.92.0.12.3-1
> has a problem compiling any 2.4.x kernel in recent history, ld
> specifically.  Last version that did compile was along with gcc version
> gcc version 2.95.4 20011006 (Debian prerelease)
> 
> ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext
> arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o
> init/version.o \
>         --start-group \
>         arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o
> mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o \
>          drivers/char/char.o drivers/block/block.o drivers/misc/misc.o
> drivers/net/net.o drivers/media/media.o drivers/ide/idedriver.o
> drivers/pci/driver.o drivers/video/video.o \
>         net/network.o \
>         /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux/lib/lib.a
> /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a \
>         --end-group \
>         -o vmlinux
> drivers/char/char.o(.data+0x46b4): undefined reference to `local symbols
> in discarded section .text.exit'
> make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
> 
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